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Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Aug 12th, 2010,
Reusable bags can be found everywhere these days. You’ll find them mixed in with handbags, at the airport, or by the checkout line. In most cases, those available in grocery or department stores range between 99 cents and $2.99. Other places (such as the airport) will charge you $10 and up for one of theirs. While using a reusable bag is a great thing (and certainly better than the “paper or plastic?” issue of the past), the cost of them can add up fast—especially if you buy a handful from each store you go to. Say you buy 5 bags,…
Tags: arts and crafts, do-it-yourself, Go Green, guide, homemaking, How to Make a Reusable Bag, instructions, recycle, reduce, reuse, sewing project
Green living, Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Jun 20th, 2010,
Sometimes people create amazing things from recyclable materials. These creations can range from artwork to the latest green gadget. This week, I am going to tell you about 3 awesome things made from recycled products. Australia’s Printer Cartridge Bike Path The problem with regular paved roads is they always seem to need maintenance. Every time you turn around, they’re doing work on the same stretch of road all over again. The same old methods don’t seem to be cutting it like they used to but finding something new that works can take a lot of time. Well, someone has come…
Tags: awesome, designs, Egg Carton Lamp, Green, Legos Printer, Printer Cartridge Bike Path, recycle, recycled, Recycling, reuse, three
Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Jun 5th, 2010,
Do you love to live green? Do you have anger issues? Do you have pent up frustrations that you need to unleash on someone or something? If you’ve answered yes to all these questions, then check this out. Macro-Sea has come up with an awesome new concept, dubbed Glassphemy! It’s a “visceral and psychological recycling center”. I’m sure that doesn’t make sense, so I’ll explain, or rather, I’ll let them explain: “We have built a 20-foot high, 30-foot long steel tower specifically designed to allow you to hurl glass bottles at your friends, enemies, and loved ones while they are…
Tags: bottles, emotional, environmental fill, glass, Glassphemy, Green, lights, Macro-Sea, psychological, recycle, Recycling, topsoil, visceral
Green living, Weird Stuff, Jun 4th, 2010,
Imagine a vessel made from approximately 12,500 reclaimed plastic soda bottles and you will have one of the most interesting creations (and story) of our time. The Plastiki started as an idea of David de Rothschild and thanks to further inspiration by the famous Kon-Tiki voyage (led by Thor Heyerdahl), the idea slowly became a reality. Since it would take a rather long time to explain the story and process of it all, you can read about it here (pdf file) and I’ll move on to the specs of it. To start with, you already know that it consists (mostly)…
Tags: awesome, boat, expedition, Green, journey, plastic bottles, Plastiki, recycle, San Francisco, self-sufficient, ship, Sydney, travel, vessel, voyage
Climate Change, Green living, Jun 2nd, 2010,
There is something that happens in many rural areas around the globe. It’s a fairly common thing and it can also be a fairly dangerous thing, both to your health and to the environment. What am I referring to? Backyard Trash Burning. Yes, in many rural areas—small towns or out in the country—people will burn their trash. Typically, the trash is burned in a burning barrel (usually a 55 gallon metal drum), though some will also burn their garbage in boxes, a wood stove, or even a small pit dug into the ground. Items that are burned consist of things…
Tags: backyard trash burning, damage, danger, disposal, environmental, fire, garbage, hazards, Health, heavy metals, open burning, pollutants, Pollution, recycle, reduce, reuse, trash, waste
Green living, Weird Stuff, May 28th, 2010,
Remember when you were a kid and loved to play with Legos? (Actually, I know quite a few adults that still collect them today). Over the years, pieces can go missing, sets become lost or broken and all that hard work (before the time of step-by-step, color-coded instruction manuals) amounts to nothing. Today, you might have a box or bag of Lego pieces in your attic, bedroom or basement and you may wonder what you could possibly do with them. You don’t have enough to build a house or a zoo exhibit, that’s for sure, and you certainly don’t want…
Tags: Dispatchwork Project, global, Jan Vormann, Legos, recycle, repair, reuse, toys
Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, May 15th, 2010,
Recycling has become a fairly common daily routine and social practice. You’ll see recycling bins at airports, amusement parks, shopping centers, and tourist destinations. You may have a recycling station at your place of work, or there might be one at your kids’ school. You do it, your neighbors do it, even celebrities and government officials do it. We may do it for the planet or the greater, greener good; or we may do it simply because it’s legally required in our town, state or country. However, there are still those who don’t do it—or perhaps they do, but they…
Tags: 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, 3-Rs, donations, eBay’s Green Team, electronics recycling, Green, Green living, home recycling, incentive, program, recycle, RecycleBank, Recycling, redeem, reduce, reuse, rewards, Visa Gconomy Card
Green living, Recycling, Apr 19th, 2010,
Recycling is a great thing to do. It’s also a very simple thing to do. Most people will separate their glass, plastic, paper, aluminum, and other materials accordingly and simply be done with it. Others will take those recyclable items and create works of art, products or even buildings out of them. While recycling is great for the environment, some still need an incentive to do it at all. What if you could recycle and earn money at the same time? Believe it or not it can be done and TerraCycle is the place to go to for it. TerraCycle…
Tags: brigades, charity, collect, earn money, products, recycle, Recycling, TerraCycle, wrappers
Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Apr 17th, 2010,
When it comes to plastic, many people are divided on the issue. Some absolutely refuse to buy or use any plastic products. Others have no problem with plastic, as long as it’s disposed of properly (reused or recycled). Given issues such as the Pacific Garbage Patch and the more recent Atlantic Garbage Patch, I don’t blame people for being upset about plastics. However, whether people approve of plastic or not, it’s still a major part of our lives. It can be found in toys, storage containers, luggage, medical equipment, construction supplies, vehicle parts, furniture, and even clothing. There have been…
Tags: art, design, garbage, innovative, plastics, products, projects, recycle, Recycling
Green living, Weird Stuff, Apr 4th, 2010,
This week, I’ve stumbled upon some pretty awesome green ideas. Some conserve space, some conserve food, and one is simply hanging around for the sake of the article (or city gardeners everywhere). Anyway, check out the list to see what I’m talking about: Fresh Code Imagine that you’ve bought some fruit and veggies from the grocery store. You stick them in the fridge, planning to use them at some point in the near future. Sure, you may eat a salad here, an apple there, but all of that produce isn’t going to be eaten all at once. As time passes,…
Tags: coffee furniture, fresh code, green designs, lounge in a box, plant room, recycle
Green living, Recycling, Mar 15th, 2010,
Guest post by Ian Moise If you are interested to guest post on our blog, click here to create an account or click here to contact us directly. — Am I blind because I do not see? Africa. . . a land of enormous beauty, of warm people, of colorful traditions, of enormous diversity, and of devastating poverty. But with poverty, comes wealth. Africa is a land where everything has value, where someone’s trash is always another person’s resource, where throwing a plastic bottle out the window is recycling, because someone will come along and use that bottle. It is…
Tags: 3-Rs, Ian Moise, Re-Use, recycle, Recycling, reuse, ReUseConnection
Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Jan 22nd, 2010,
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. We all know of the 3-R mantra by now. Some people live by it almost religiously. Most of us, however, will reduce and recycle, but we seem to skip that reuse step quite often. We see items as trash or junk and usually treat them as such. Instead of being reincarnated into some useful second life, things end up occupying landfills instead. If you want to take a stab at the reuse step—or if you already take that step and simply need inspiration—I suggest you check out Recyclart.org. This site is absolutely awesome! There are tons…
Tags: art and craft projects, creative ways to recycle, finding new uses for old junk, Recyclart, recycle, reduce, reuse
Green living, Natural disasters, Recycling, Jan 20th, 2010,
Last week, an earthquake destroyed a good portion of Haiti. The 7.0 quake left millions injured or without homes and the death toll has risen to 200,000 thus far. Round the clock aid is being provided and donations are being made. If you are wondering how you can help, there is one rather interesting type of donation you can take part in: cell phones. Yes, by recycling your old or unwanted cell phones, not only will it eliminate waste from landfills, it will also help all those Haitians in need. How? PhonesForHaiti.com is the one responsible for the program. All…
Tags: American Red Cross, cell phones, disaster relief, earthquake, Haiti, phonesforhaiti.com, ReCellular, recycle
Green living, Recycling, Jan 4th, 2010,
The holidays have come and gone, stores are already stocking shelves for Valentine’s Day, and many of you are probably wondering what on earth to do with that Christmas tree or all those decorations that may have lost their luster. Luckily for you, some people have thought ahead on the matter. Earth911 offers suggestions on how to dispose of your Christmas tree (provided it’s a real tree), including turning it into firewood, mulch or simply throwing it into a body of water. If those options won’t really work for you, they also have a searchable database for places that specialize…
Tags: boxes, Christmas lights, Christmas tree, gift bags, old electronics, post-holiday tips, post-holiday trash, recycle, Recycling, reduce, reuse, wrapping paper
Green living, Politics, Recycling, Oct 21st, 2009,
I used to hear that recycling was bunk; that it was at best in an initial or transitional phase, but currently an inefficient use of energy and resources, and even potentially polluting. Critics called it a massive, coordinated publicity stunt devised to placate the public and convince us that we’re doing something good when we’re really all just having a picnic on the beach, blissfully unaware of the toxic tidal wave of trash that will eventually kill us all. That was the cynical view, anyway. The optimists had a different perspective: as technology advanced, large scale recycling would become more…
Tags: plastic, recycle, recycled, Recycling, the truth about recycling, waste
Green living, Recycling, Science & Technology, Oct 17th, 2009,
For at least several years now, there have been a number of ways to dispose of your old, unwanted cell phones. Some places will accept them for recycling—and may even pay you for them. If it’s one that has a pay-as-you-go plan (no contract involved), some people simply pass them on to friends or family to use. Most, however, probably pitch them in the nearest garbage can and move on their way. Now there is a whole new, innovative way to get rid of that pesky phone that’s been taking up space in your desk drawer: EcoATMs. EcoATM (formerly known…
Tags: cell phones, e-waste, EcoATM, recycle, retail
